NEBOSH INTERNATIONAL GENERAL CERTIFICATE TRAINING & EXAMINATION

Give a boost to your career with the NEBOSH INTERNATIONAL GENERAL CERTIFICATE TRAINING & EXAMINATION with an Accredited center (945)
This Health & Safety training is a level 6 safety qualification that provides an excellent foundation in Health and safety for managers and people starting out on a career in health and safety. The NEBOSH IGC course is relevant to all types of organizations as it helps the professional manage risks effectively. NEBOSH IGC is about the highest recognised qualification in the field of safety. It also ranks amongst the most reputable qualification for those working in the oil & gas sector. On successful completion of the course a professional will automatically be recognised as a Technician Membership (Tech IOSH) of Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and Associate membership (AIIRSM) of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM).
Novelle center is a NEBOSH accredited center in Nigeria. Accreditation number is 945. We offer you the best chances at success. We have a history of the highest distinction recorded by our students during our exams.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Managers, Supervisors, Technicians, Health Professionals, Environmental Professionals, Young Graduates in all disciplines, Consultants, Engineers, Oil and Gas workers, Workers in the production and manufacturing sectors
DATE: 09th - 20th March 2015
DURATION: 9am – 5pm daily
VENUE:
Port Harcourt: Novelle center, Suite 21, Opus Plaza, 21 Afam Street D/line Port Harcourt, Rivers State (Contact - Mr Tony [to get phone number click on show number button])
Lagos: Novelle center, 7 Olufumilola Okikiolu Street, Off Toyin Street, Ikeja Lagos (Contact Mr Faith - [to get phone number click on show number button])
Course and Exam fee is N250,000. Candidates can pay in 3 installments. This fee covers the training, examination, British Council registration, course materials and refreshment:

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Procurement Officer II (Trainee) at Retrogidi Nigeria Limited

Retrogidi is one of the foremost Information Technology Solutions Companies in Nigeria. Since our inception over two decades ago, we have evolved from a small organization pushing boxes to customers to a company providing enterprise ICT services to mid range and large scale companies across Nigeria. We offer broad Electronic, security and technology products, services & solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Procurement Officer II (Trainee)

Location: Lagos

Job Responsibilities

    Provide daily operational support to staff regarding the support of transaction planning and processing efforts to ensure all procurement activities are delivered in the most cost effective manner without compromising on Quality and Standards, while meeting customer expectations for efficient and effective service delivery.
    Assess cost and other performance aspects.
    Lead initiatives to optimize fleet (company and third party leased vehicles) engagement.
    Facility management of the Company offices in Lagos and Abuja.
    Manage and monitor the use, schedule and maintenance of the Company Transport and Delivery vehicles.
    Ensure that all Company drivers' credentials are always up-to-date.
    Assess the drivers training needs and ensure prompt bridging of identified gaps by informing HR of relevant training programs
    Analyze logistical problems and produce new solutions.
    Liaise and build relationships with the company and clients.
    Follow existing processes and systems in view of efficient operations, continuously recommending improvement.
    Identify opportunities and implement actions to continually reduce wasted time, money and resources from assigned tasks.
    Comply with all company’s local procedures applicable to the job function.
    Supervise all third party activities including invoice reviewing.
    Safeguard internal arrangement and common goals/ objectives to support internal customers.
    Perform all other duties that are necessary and reasonably attached to this Procurement Officer II(Trainee) position and the fulfillment of its responsibilities.

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

    Minimum of OND in any discipline related to Management Science, Finance, Business Administration, Accountancy, Mathematics and Statistics.
    Minimum of one (1) year cognate experience in the industry will be an advantage.
    Ability to handle and track items.
    Excellent written and oral communication skills.
    Numeracy skill.
    Good organizational and planning skills.
    Timeliness and effectiveness of the company’s tendering management system and procedures and vendor selection.
    Interpersonal skills, high collaboration with others and a team player.
    Good negotiation skills.
    Must be analytical and structured.

Renumeration
The Salary ranges from 80, 000 to 125, 000 monthly depending on the qualifications of the candidate.

Application Closing Date
20th Monday April, 2015.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's in Microsoft Word Format (PDF Format Not Acceptable) to:

careers@retrogidigroup.com

careers@retrogidigroup.com

careers@retrogidigroup.com
Note: Multiple applications will lead to disqualification of the Applicant.

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Job Vacancies (5 Positions)

Shapeyou Company, birthed in 2014 is Nigeria's No 1 online store providing Authentic Waist Cinching and body sculpting garments to ladies worldwide.

At Shapeyou, we believe in the overall beauty and confidence of the modern day woman.

Women everywhere are raving about the hourglass figure and the weight-loss solutions that the waist shapers, girdles and shape wear create. Waist shapers immediately sculpt the midsection through compression, while supporting the back and lifting the bust, creating an overall slimmer and curvier silhouette. They support long-term slimming by increasing thermal activity and perspiration. This mobilizes fat and toxins, maximizing the work your muscles do every day.

Shape You Africa is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Creative Writer

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2.) Graphic Artist

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3.) Communications Executive

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4.) Personal Assistant to the MD

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5.) Web Developer

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Republicans and Democrats Prefer What They Know[2016]

2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is Republicans' top pick for 2016, while Democrats prefer 2008 runner-up Hillary Clinton.
Sometime next January (though the exact dates are not yet set), the 2016 presidential primary selection process will begin. One year before then, partisans on both sides say they prefer what they know to what they don’t – with the GOP 2012 standard bearer and the woman who has been the Democratic frontrunner for years leading as their respective party’s 2016 choices.

The latest Economist/YouGov Poll gives Mitt Romney the lead when registered voters who describe themselves as Republicans are asked who they would like to win the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. And his margin is wide – more than twice as many Republicans choose him as select the next highest-ranked Republican, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. When Republicans are asked to choose between Bush and Romney, Romney leads by two to one.

Good feelings about Romney are near universal among Republicans. More than eight in ten have a favorable opinion of the former Massachusetts Governor. Only 12% are not favorable. Those are the best rankings for any of the possible GOP candidates included in the Economist/YouGov Poll. The second most popular Republican is 2012’s GOP Vice Presidential nominee, Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan. But Ryan took himself out of the 2016 competition this past weekend.

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Tennessee Senator Rand Paul also do well with Republicans. All fare better than Bush with GOP identifiers. In fact, one in four Republicans have an unfavorable opinion of the former Florida Governor. Only Texas Senator Ted Cruz and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie have higher unfavorable ratings. 26% are unfavorable towards Cruz, and a third are unfavorable towards Christie.
Republicans are not the only ones who are putting more confidence in those with more name recognition – and those with a longer history in the party.  Democrats, too, seem more comfortable with what they know. This week’s poll was conducted before Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren took herself out of the running for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but even before that statement, she was trailing the runner-up for the 2008 Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton.  And trailing significantly.
Vice President Joe Biden and other possible Democratic contenders are even farther behind.
Even though a majority of Democrats have a favorable opinion of Warren, far more give Clinton a favorable rating.  And Clinton’s positives are just about as high among Democratic men as they are among Democratic women.
The President’s favorable rating from Democrats is only slightly higher than the rating Democrats give Clinton: 87% of Democrats have a favorable opinion of Barack Obama; 11% don’t.  Clinton fares better with Democrats than Romney does with Republicans.
Clinton and Bush (and to a lesser extent, Romney and Paul) are members of political families.  Romney and Paul’s fathers ran for the White House; Clinton and Bush are related to men who have served as President.  Registered voters in a YouGov Poll conducted earlier this month weren’t sure that made a difference – and those who did were evenly split on whether that made them more (21%) or less (18%) likely to support someone.
Nearly half agreed that candidates from political dynasties have more experience, but about the same percentage say they have an unfair advantage.
As for the two most prominent members of political dynasties, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, Clinton would be ahead of Bush among registered voters if a presidential election were being held today.  But one in four voters at the moment don’t support either.
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Obama sees popularity gains on domestic issues only

President Obama

President Obama's political fortunes have improved on domestic issues, but not foreign policy

Things may be looking better for the President when it comes to domestic issues, but there are concerns about foreign policy and terrorism, which once was a bright spot for the Administration.  In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, Americans are as likely to approve as they are to disapprove of the way the President is handling the economy – something that has not been the case for a very long time.
Americans have slowly noticed the changes in the state of the American economy.  This week, a third of them recognize that the unemployment rate has dropped below 6%, and a majority agrees that the rate is lower today than it was when Barack Obama first took office in January 2009.  Republicans, who for a long time had resisted seeing positive change in the economy, are no different than the public overall on these questions: A third say the jobless rate is less than 6%, half agree it has dropped since President Obama was first inaugurated.
And when asked if the economy is getting better or worse, slightly more say it is improving than think it is declining.  The percentage saying the economy is getting worse this week is among the lowest seen since 2010.
As has been the case all along, perceptions of the economy are linked to partisanship, with Democrats thinking things are getting better and Republicans vehemently disagreeing.
When it comes to jobs, Americans are more likely to view unemployment as a very serious national problem than they are to see it as very serious in their own communities.  There is a 16-point difference in the public overall – and an even larger one for Republicans.  More than half of Republicans, 55%, say unemployment is a very serious national problem; just over half that percentage of Republicans, 30%¸ view it as very serious in their own communities.
There is also some good news for the President this week on health care.  For the first time in Economist/YouGov polls, half the public say they would prefer to keep or expand the Affordable Care act.   Still, 40% would repeal it.
Public willingness to continue Obamacare (or even expand it) has improved lately, although Americans are not yet ready to label it a success – and they may never be.  Although a majority believes the number of people now with health care coverage increased in the last year, just 26% label the ACA a success.  41% say it has been a failure.
But these improvement on domestic issues may be overshadowed by the international problems the country now faces – and the President is not seen as doing a great job managing them.  That is particularly true when it comes to the public’s assessment of his handling of terrorism.  Evaluation of the President’s handling of terrorism had often been better than his overall ratings, especially in 2011, when Osama Bin Laden was killed by the U.S. military.  
No longer.   Just 41% this week approve.
In recent polls, Americans have expressed discontent with other aspects of Administration foreign policy, and this week, when it comes to foreign policy in general, only 37% of Americans approve.  Nearly half, 48%, do not.  President Obama’s overall approval rating remains in the low 40’s, with a majority disapproving. 
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Americans Are Divided On Weapons Shipments To Ukraine [Infographic]

After a marathon meeting lasting 15 hours in Minsk, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, confirmed that a ceasefire agreement had been reached to end fighting in Eastern Ukraine.

 Heavy weapons will be withdrawn from the front lines from midnight on Saturday with the ceasefire coming into force on February 15th.

On Monday, President Obama said that his administration was considering supplying the Ukrainian government with weapons, coinciding with a spike in the fighting. However, research from YouGov suggests the American public is divided when it comes to arms shipments.

37 percent of those surveyed were against the US providing weapons to the Ukrainian military while 32 percent would support any such move. Politically, the picture is very different. Over half of Republicans, 53 percent, support military aid to Ukraine compared to just 27 percent of Democrats.

Most Americans support holding diplomatic relations with Russia as well as imposing greater economic sanctions. If the ceasefire fails to hold and the situation deteriorates further, over 60 percent of the American public would be opposed to US troops being sent to Ukraine. YouGov’s overall findings on measures to end the conflict were similar in the United Kingdom.

*Click below to enlarge (charted by Statista)

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Anti-Science Views Are a Bipartisan Problem

The truth is anti-vaxxers are made up of liberals and conservatives.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul made their comments on vaccination, the issue has become a partisan sideshow. Bolstered by media critiques of Christie and Paul, Democrats gleefully accused Republicans of anti-science views. And conservatives, miffed by a perceived double standard, replied in kind.

“It is indefensible to spin this as a problem for Republicans,” wrote Mollie Hemingway, senior editor for the Federalist, pointing to the prevalence of vaccine skeptics in liberal enclaves like Marin County, California, and the presence of the same in liberal magazines like Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, and Salon. Her colleague, fellow senior editor David Harsanyi, went further, listing “five ways liberals ignore science,” from anti-vaccination and anti-genetically modified foods dogma, to global warming “alarmism,” fracking, and a whole host of parascience beliefs. “Among those who do believe extraterrestrials are hanging around, 69 percent are Democrats, a far higher number than Republicans,” he writes, citing a 2013 poll from YouGov and the Huffington Post. “Democrats were also significantly more likely than Republicans to believe in fortune telling, and about twice as likely to believe in the astrology.”

I sympathize with the impulse behind both arguments. It’s maddening to see thoughtful friends and smart allies tarred with the brush of “anti-science,” especially when the charge still stings. The fame of Neil deGrasse Tyson or the massive popularity of fictional characters like Tony Stark is a sure sign that science—or at least, a crude scientism—retains great influence in public life, even as the broad culture faces a crisis of confidence in authority. To stand against science in many places is to invite stigma and disdain.

Which is to say that overall, both Hemingway and Harsanyi are right: Fairness requires an evenhanded look at the presence of anti-science beliefs on the left and the right. With that in mind, vaccine skepticism is mostly ecumenical. The Pew Research Center finds modest differences in views about vaccination—34 percent of Republicans, 33 percent of independents, and 22 percent of Democrats believe parents should have final say on vaccination—while we know from anecdotes that vaccine rejection is present in conservative religious communities (like the Amish in Ohio) as well as in crunchy college-town communes like Boulder, Colorado. In fact, the available data shows stability in anti-vaccination views across ideology—neither side is substantially more likely than the other to hold anti-vaccine beliefs.

Fairness requires an evenhanded look at the presence of anti-science beliefs on the left and the right.

Which gets to the problem of this conversation: It is annoyingly, frustratingly imprecise. Because we see the strongest anti-vaccination beliefs among clusters of affluent, left-wing parents, we assume a one-to-one connection—it’s their politics that drive their conviction. And when their conversations turn to deceitful doctors and untrustworthy pharmaceuticals companies, that’s a fair assumption to make. At the same time, as Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan makes clear, “[P]olitical liberalism is part of a correlated cluster of beliefs and lifestyles in those places and isn’t seemingly the most important explanatory factor in determining who’s a vaccine skeptic.” That many vaccine skeptics are liberal doesn’t make vaccination skepticism a liberal belief, driven by liberal concerns. And this is true for a whole host of anti-science beliefs—like belief in astrology—that are associated with particular political teams but aren’t themselves political.

All of which raises a question: When is an anti-science belief political? At the risk of tautology, it’s when it becomes an agenda item for the party in question. Neither vaccine skepticism nor its cousin, GMO skepticism, is a particular Republican or Democratic problem, because neither party advances policies or agendas around either concern. (Although, if either issue developed a distinct political constituency, that could happen, which is one critical reason we don’t want vaccination to become part of the partisan landscape.) By contrast, something like climate skepticism is a Republican problem—distinct from other anti-science beliefs—because of its huge currency in actual Republican politics. Sure, both parties have members with anti-science beliefs. But it’s the GOP that’s elevated a few of those beliefs to the party platform.

Are Democrats in a similar situation? Not quite. While some conservatives describe abortion rights as anti-science—citing the truth that a human life is created at the moment of fertilization—that confuses a biological question with a metaphysical one. The question for most abortion rights advocates isn’t whether the fetus is human, it’s whether it stands as a person with the rights and protections of an infant or a child. That’s a question for religion, philosophy, and law, not science.

And this is true of a whole host of political and politicized beliefs. In the quest for partisan advantage, everyone scrambles to clothe his or her beliefs in the guise of objectivity. The reality, however, is that our beliefs are nothing of the sort. We construct them outside the scope of scientific observation, with ideas that come to us through custom, experience, and education, and for which science gives little confirmation or support. “We see what we want to see,” writes John Dewey in Human Nature and Conduct, “We dwell upon favoring circumstances till they become weighted with reinforcing considerations.” In that environment, honest deliberation, he says, “needs every possible help it can get against the twisting, exaggerating, and slighting tendency of passion and habit.”

Instead of trying to attack each other for our fealty to science—or lack thereof—let’s acknowledge the deep subjectivity of our views but try to use the tools and methods of science to help us inform and strengthen them; to challenge them, to sharpen them, and to try to root them in our shared reality.

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Americans Question Whether Science Fiction Will Ever Become Science Fact

The first real moon landing was over forty years ago but many Americans are now skeptical that the technologies which fuel so many sci-fi franchises will be coming to Earth any time soon.

Warp speed rockets shifting vehicles faster than the speed of light, teleporters shifting our molecules from place to place and time travel are unlikely leaps for most Americans. 58% are sure that time travel is never going to happen and 45% never expect to see teleportation as a travel option. Vehicles traveling faster than the speed of light are almost as unlikely (43% think they will never happen).

From invisibility devices to fictional stealth technology cloaking devices, Americans aren’t convinced. 35% think that invisibility devices are never going to happen.

Despite the recent Virgin Galactic disaster, Americans do, however, have faith in the swift commercialization of space flight. One in five (21%) think commercial flights will be scientifically feasible before the end of 2020. Only 9% think that it is never going to happen.

Around one in five also think that human cloning (22%) and mind-controlled robotic limbs (22%) will be scientifically possible before the end of 2020. 17%, however, think that these won’t ever be possible.

What might be coming up in the much longer term? 40% of Americans think that it might be scientifically feasible to live permanently or at least indefinitely in space after 2025. 35% think that after 2025 robots will be created which could pass for humans.

 Which of the following technologies and/or advancements do you think will NEVER be scientifically possible?

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How to delete/clean unnecessary files from hard drive and get free space in GBs without any software.

This is very serious problem C drive of our hard disk is full even we have not save any file in C drive of our hard disk. So because of this problem we restore our windows of install new windows. This is a temporary solution of this problem but not permanent to clean hard drive. Here i write some solutions that may help full for you to clean your hard drive.


1: If you installed Internet Download Manager in your system then mostly it occupies space in GB's without any reason. Mean it waste space and should be removed from our system. For this purpose just go to C Drive => User => go to the user that you created on installing time of windows(Name-PC) => AppData(It will not show. First show hidden folder then you will see this folder) => Roaming => IDM => DwnlData => Default PC name's Folder(Name-PC) => Delete All files you see in this folder.
You will get Free space in GB's in your hard drive. Enjoy and share with your friends. There is no software that will remove these file.

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How to recover data from your memory card or USB or hard disk partition by using software Recova

To day our topic is How to recover data from your memory card or USB or hard disk partition by using software Recuva. So i will discuss on data that are lost by mistake. Data recovery is not a difficult task but if data is overwrite from where you want to recover data then you cannot recover it. For example if data is deleted or format from USB and you copy data other data on USB then you cannot recover your old data. But if you didn't copy ay data on your USB then you can recover data from your USB.

Now question is that how to recover data from USB or memory card or from hard disk? There are some simple steps to recover your data are given below.

1: Download and install Recuva in your system. Download link is given below

Download Link

2: Now open Recuva software and click Next Button

3: Choose your own option that you want like pictures music etc or if you want to recover all files then check All Files and then click on Next

4: Now select directory from where you want to recover your data. Click on Browse Button.

5: Choose directory from where you want to recover data. In my case i am recovering data from my USB device. and then click OK and then click on Next button.

6: Now check "Enable Deep Scan" and then click on Start Button.

7: Scanning of your device is start as you are watching below

8: All files that are found shown in the below dialog box.

9: Check files that you want to recover or you can check all files by checking check box that is high lighted. And then click Recover button.

10:  Now select directory where you want to keep recovered files. and then click on OK button

11: Recovering of data is started 

12: When recovery is completed you will see a dialog box as given below. Click OK your data is recovered. :-)

This is very simple tutorial to recover data from USB or memory card or from your hard disk. Don't forget to like our Facebook page.

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